Coverlet of red wool and blue-green cotton. 2 loom widths decoratively and strongly seamed in the center with red wool. This coverlet is comparatively light weight. Self-fringes of red wool on both sides. Foot end is rolled and hand-stitched. Red wool fringes appear to have been individually applied.Top/head edge is finished with a 1.5-inch wide folded silky red binding. Some machine stitching in black thread and also hand-stitching to attach the binding.
Center field contains rows of circular designs. Roses border the lower edge and foliage in urns border the sides.
Unlike most coverlets, Satler's weaver's blocks in bottom corners are oriented to be read from the top of the coverlet.
Insurance policy of Benjiman Hershey of Leacock Twp. from the Lancaster Mutual Insurance Company signed by Henry Slaymaker, Secretary and Samuel Duffield, President.
Photograph- Eshleman's Mill covered bridge across Pequea Creek, east of Paradise and Gordonville and north of Leaman Place, between Paradise and Leacock townships.
Photograph- Eshleman's Mill covered bridge across Pequea Creek, east of Paradise and Gordonville and north of Leaman Place, between Paradise and Leacock townships.
Description
Eshleman's Mill covered bridge across Pequea Creek, east of Paradise and Gordonville and north of Leaman Place, between Paradise and Leacock townships.
Provenance
Lancaster County covered bridge photos taken by M. E. Schroll and Kathryn L. Sauder taken between 1956 and 1958.
Page 27: Old Leacock Presbyterian Church; Horse drawn carriage at Old Leacock Presbyterian Church; Entrance to Old Leacock Presbyterian Church; Old Leacock Presbyterian Graveyard; Paradise Episcopal Church.
Provenance
First of two Diffenderfer family albums. Compiled by Frank Reid Diffenderfer, a former member of LCHS and an editor of a Lancaster city newspaper. Album documents his family as well as that of his neighbors on North Duke Street, Lancaster, between 1901 and 1903. Neighbors include Charles Fondersmith, Robert Slaymaker, and his daughter, Ida, who married Frank Fondersmith.
